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8-1 Short Answer: Religion in the Media
Southern New Hampshire University
Sheryl Hayman
December 2020

The Jefferson Bible, excerpts cut from several different bibles with a razor blade and then
pieced together by Thomas Jefferson, is something that only recently came to my attention.
Jefferson certainly proved he had no lack of self-confidence to take this monumental task on. He
did not rebuke the entire story, just portions of it, such as the resurrection and other miracles,
which Jefferson believed were nothing more than entertaining stories created by the men writing
them. He held that Jesus did live but that he was not God, not the son of God, but was merely
human just like you and me. Therefore, he took it upon himself to write the story as he believed